Apparatus for winding armatures



Jan. 25, 1966 H. w. MOORE APPARATUS FOR WINDING ARMATURES 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Original Filed Dec. 12, 1958 JNVENTOR. HAIEEY M M0025 JIE. 4

Jan. 25, 1966 H. w. MOORE 3,23

APPARATUS FOR WINDING ARMATURES Original Filed Dec. 12, 1958 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVEN TOR. 1 /45? Y W M 00 96- BY WM United States Patent l 3 Claims. (Cl. 242--13) This is a division of Serial No. 780,150, filed December 12, 1958.

This invention relates to apparatus for winding armatures and the armatures produced thereby.

When winding commutator type motors, it is necessary to attach the en-ds'of the coils to the commutator segments. Various types of tanks or notches may be used for attaching the leads of the coils or windings to the commutator segments. In the particular embodiment shown herein, hooklike tanks have been used. However, other types of tangs could be used. In connecting the ends of the coils or windings to the commutator segments, if the commutator segment is aligned with the coil, the leads are taut when the coils are wound by automatic winding machines. These taut leads prevent the coils from utilizing much of the space adjacent the armature shaft. In some cases, successive coils are spaced a great distance apart, so that a lead extending from one coil is angularly disposed when extending to I the tang and then the lead from the tang is angularly disposed but in the opposite direction from the first lead, to thereby cause the leads to lie close to the armature shaft. However, this method presents problems.

An object of this invention is to provide apparatus for winding coils wherein the leads from two adjacent coils are hooked over a tang angularly offset from the coils and the return lead or the lead to the succeeding coil is laid in the same slot or a slot adjacent the slot from which the previous coil extends.

Other objects and advantages reside in the construction of parts, the combination thereof, the method of manufacture and the mode of operation, as will become more apparent from the following description.

In the drawings, FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of an armature core having leads extending to two tangs, the tangs being offset at a' substantial angle from the slot from which the leads extend.

FIGURE 2 is a perspective view of an armature having'the commutator mounted in an apparatus for intermittently shielding the tangs and for intermittently defleeting the lead from the normal winding path, so as to hook over or engage a tang on the commutator. FIGURE 3 is another perspective view similar to FIG- URE 2, wherein the shield has been retracted from the tangs and the deflecting means is in the process of booking the .wire on a tang.

FIGURE 4 illustrates a series of coils wound progressively in a clockwise direction, as viewed from the bottom of FIGURE 4, wherein the coils trail the position of the leads. 1

FIGURE 5 discloses a series of coils wound progressively in a counterclockwise direction, as viewed from the bottom of FIGURE 5, wherein the coils lead the position of the'leads.

FIGURE 6 discloses a series of coils wound progrestoward the right, as

Patented Jan. 25, 1966 sively in a clockwise direction, as viewed from the bottom of FIGURE 6, wherein the coils lead the position of the leads.

FIGURES 7A, 7B, 7C and 7D illustrate successive positions of the apparatus used in hooking the leads on the tangs when winding coils like those shown in FIG- URE 4 and FIGURE 6.

FIGURES 8A, 8B, 8C and 8D disclose successive positions of the apparatus used in hooking the leads on the tangs when winding coils like those shown in FIG- URE 5.

Referring to the drawings, the reference numeral 10 is used to designate broadly an armature provided with a slotted armature core 11 mounted upon an armature shaft 14 supporting the commutator 16 provided with a plurality of commutator segments 18, each provided with a hook-shaped tang 20, the hook being directed in a direction away from the core. The armature core 11 has teeth 12 extending radially and outwardly between the slots. The shaft 14 supports tubular members 22 of insulating material. Furthermore, a tubular sleeve 24 of insulating material is positioned between the armature core 11 and the commutator 16. Although the tangs have been shown as integral with the commutator segments, these tangs could be integral with separate pieces abutting the sides of the commutator segments. These pieces may be provided with risers which may be hookshaped for supporting a lead. Instead of using tangs, slots in the segments for receiving the segments could be used, the leads being welded or soldered to the slots as the armature is being wound. In that event, one of the electrodes of the electric welder (not shown) could replace the hook and the other electrode could engage the slot directly above the lead, so that upon the electrodes being energized, the leads would then be Welded to the slot.

Different types or arrangements of windings have been illustrated schematically in FIGURES 4, 5 and 6. These have been shown merely for the purpose of illustration, in that numerous modifications of windings are adaptable for use with the method and apparatus for securing the leads at the ends of the coils to the tangs of the commutator. v

In the schematic winding diagram shown in FIGURE 4, a lead or wire 30 enters a slot located between the armature core teeth 12a and 12b. The loop 30a in the lead 30 extends over a tang 20. This tang 20 is angularly offset from the. coil and from the angle formed by the slots supporting the coil. The lead extends from the tang 20 down through the same slot between the teeth 12a and 12b and then it is hooked around the tooth 12b, one side of the coil being located between the teeth 12b and and the other side of the coil in the slot located between the teeth 12d and 12e. The coilhas been illustrated by a single winding, whereas, in reality, the coil may consist of any number of windings or layers, as for example, ten or twelve, more or less. The lead 30b extends to another tang 20 and returns through the same slot hooked around a tooth 120 for winding the succeeding coil. The winding of the coils progresses viewed in FIGURE 4. Each coil is located to the left of the end lead thereof.

In the diagram shown in FIGURE 5, the wire or lead 32 is first hooked on a tang 20, then it extends to the slot found between the teeth 12 and 12g. The coil 32a extends around three teeth. The number of teeth is a matter of choice. The end terminal 32b is hooked around the tooth 12g and extends to the tang 20 through the slot located between the teeth 12g and 12h. In this embodiment the final lead of the coil advances to a slot succeeding the slot containing the coil before advancing to the tang.

In the embodiment shown in FIGURE 6, the direction of the coils with respect to the leads is reversed from that shown in FIGURE 4. It is believed that the wiring diagram in FIGURE 6 is self-explanatory.

The apparatus used in hooking the leads on the tangs has been illustrated in FIGURES 2, 3, 7A to 7D and 8A to 8D. This apparatus will now be described. The apparatus consists of a tubular sleeve or shield 40 overlymg the commutator segments and abutting the tangs 20, as shown in FIGURE 2. The sleeve 40 may be adjusted from the position shown in FIGURE 2 to the position shown in FIGURE 3, where the end of the sleeve 40 has been withdrawn from the tangs to thereby expose the tangs. This may be accomplished by connecting a piston rod 42 actuated by a cylinder 44 and connected to the tubular sleeve 40', so as to control the position of the sleeve 40.

Telescopically mounted upon the sleeve 40 is a tubular sleeve 50 provided with lead engaging tang extensions 52. In the particular embodiment shown, two lead engaging tang extensions have been shown. This embodiment is used when two fliers are used to wind two separate coils simultaneously. The sleeve th is mounted for rotation upon the sleeve 40 without longitudinal movement of the sleeve 50. A gear ring 54 surrounds and is fixedly attached to the sleeve 50. A toothed rack bar 56, actuated by a hydraulic or pneumatic piston 58 is used to rotate the sleeve 50 through successive steps, as may be required. A flier 60, provided with a wire guide or roller 62, is used in winding the coils. Fliers of this type are used in coil winding machines, as illustrated in the Moore Patent No. 2,627,379. Instead of using hydraulic cylinders to actuate the sleeves 4t) and 50, electromagnets or any other suitable driving mechanism may be used within the purview of this invention.

During the winding operation of a coil, the tubular sleeve 40 abuts the tangs 20, so as to provide a shield preventing the wire or leads from engaging any of the tangs during the winding operation. In winding the coils of the type shown in FIGURES 4 and 6, a series of steps used in the winding operation is shown in FIG- URES 7A to 7D inclusive, which will now be described.

In FIGURE 7A, the sleeve 50 has been rotated so as to rotate the extension 52 which has caught the lead 30 and advanced it in a position between the tangs a and 20b. It is to be noted that the lead is located above the tang 20a, as viewed in FIGURE 7A. However, the sleeve shields the tangs when the extension 52 advances the lead upwardly. When the lead enters the position shown in FIGURE 7A, the sleeve 40 is withdrawn into the position shown in FIGURE 7B. The lead 30, extending from the extension 52 to the slot in the core 11, then drops into contact with the segments 18 of the commutator 16 between the tangs Zita and 20b. The sleeve is then reversed, so as to move the extension 52 into the position shown in FIGURE 7C to hook the lead or wire under the tang 20a. At this time the sleeve 40 is actuated from the position shown in FIG- URE 7C into the position shown in 7D, so as to shield the t-angs and hold the lead under the tang 20a, which has been moved by the flier into some other position in readiness for returning the lead through the slot from whence it came. After the lead has been laid in the slot from whence it came, the armature is indexed, so as to advance a succeeding pair of slots into wind-ing position.

This series of operations is repeated after the winding of each coil that is wound upon the armature core until the armature core has been completely wound.

The

4- lead of the first coil and the lead of the last coil are hooked under a tang. The armature is then removed from the fixture or apparatus for winding the coils and moved to a welder where all of the tangs are welded to the leads either simultaneously or in seriatim, as the case may be.

In winding the coils shown in FIGURE 5, it is necessary to reverse the direction of the lead with respect to the tangs of the commutator segments. The successive steps of the apparatus used in winding coils like those shown in FIGURE 5, are shown in FIGURES 8A to 8D. When a coil has been wound and the lead is in the position on the armature core opposite the commutator, as shown in FIGURE 5, the armature is indexed, so that the lead from the first coil 32a extends up between the teeth 12g and 1211 before advancing to the tang. Then the extension 52. is moved from inoperative position to operative position, as shown inFIGURE 8A. The shield 40 remains in position untilthe lead is located between the tang 20a (FIGURE 8A) and the tang 20c. The sleeve 40 is then withdrawn from shielding position, as shown in FIGURE 8A. The lead extending from the extension 52 to the commutator slot, then drops into contact with the commutator segment. The extension 52 advances upwardly, as shown in FIGURE 83, feeding the lead 30, extending from the commutator slot under the tang 20a, into the position shown in FIG- URE 8C. The sleeve 4-0 is then advanced into shielding position, holding the lead under the tang 20a, The extension 52 and the sleeve 50 are then reversed, so as to move the extension 52 into inoperative position and the winding of the succeeding coil takes place. These steps are repeated until the armature is completely wound.

Although the preferred embodiment of the device has been described, it will be understood that within the purview of this invention various changes may be made in the form, details, proportion and arrangement of parts, the combination thereof and mode of operation, which generally stated carrying out the objects set fined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a device for use in winding coils of wire on an armature core mounted upon a shaft supporting a cornmutator provided with lead receiving tangs, the combination including a pair of telescopically mounted tubu lar sleeves, the inner sleeve surrounding the commutator to shield the tangs, means reciprocating the inner sleeve to move said inner sleeve into and out of engagement with the tangs, the outer sleeve being mounted for rotary motion, and means for rotating the outer sleeve, said outer sleeve having wire engaging means for deflecting the wire after a coil is wound.

2. In a device for use in winding coils of wire on an armature core mounted upon a shaft supporting a commutator having lead receiving surface portions, the combination including a pair of telescopically mounted tubular sleeves, the inner sleeve surrounding. the commuta tor to shield said surface portions, means reciprocating the inner sleeve to move said inner sleeve into and out of shielding relation with respect to said surface portions, and means relatively rotating said outer sleeve and the armature core, said outer sleeve having wire engaging means for deflecting the wire after a coil is wound.

3. In a device for use in winding an armature core mounted upon a shaft supporting a commutator provided with lead receiving tangs, the combination including winding means winding coils of wire into' slots in said armature core, a pair of telescopically mounted, relatively rotatable tubular sleeves, the inner sleeve surrounding the commutator and shielding at least those tangs which would otherwise interfere with the wire during operation of said winding means, the outer sleeve having an ex tension extending from one end thereof for deflecting a forth, as disclosed and deconsist in a device capable of 5 6 length of wire between. said win-ding means and said coil 2,718,359 9/1955 Hunsdorf 242-13 after a coil has been wound, and means rotating said 2,878,405 3/1959 Merril 312-234 outer sleeve relative to said inner sleeve andsaid com- 2,883,119 4/1959 Brown 242-13 mutator sufficiently to deflect said strand of wire toward 2,897,385 7/1959 Powell 310- 234 a selected commutator tang while the Winding means 5 2,964,253 12/1960 Gagliard 242 13 is at rest. 3,002,259 10/1961 Fletcher et a1 242-13 X References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS MERVIN STEIN, Przmary Exammer. 2 30 55 12 1942 Allen 242 13 X MILTON O. HIRSHFIELD, RUSSELL C. MADER,

2,627,379 2/1953 Moore 242-13 10 Examine"- 

3. IN A DEVICE FOR USE IN WINDING AN ARMATURE CORE MOUNTED UPON A SHAFT SUPPORTING A COMMUTATOR PROVIDED WITH LEAD RECEIVING TANGS, THE COMBINATION INCLUDING WINDING MEANS WINDING COILS OF WIRE INTO SLOTS IN SAID ARMATURE CORE, A PAIR OF TELESCOPICALLY MOUNTED, RELATIVELY ROTATABLE TUBULAR SLEEVES, THE INNER SLEEVE SURROUNDING THE COMMUTATOR AND SHIELDING AT LEAST THOSE TANGS WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE INTERFERE WITH THE WIRE DURING OPERATION OF SAID WINDING MEANS, THE OUTER SLEEVE HAVING AN EXTENSION EXTENDING FROM ONE END THEREOF FOR DEFLECTING A LENGTH OF WIRE BETWEEN SAID WINDING MEANS AND SAID COIL AFTER A COIL HAS BEEN WOUND, AND MEANS ROTATING SAID OUTER SLEEVE RELATIVE TO SAID INNER SLEEVE AND SAID COMMUTATOR SUFFICIENTLY TO DEFLECT SAID STRAND OF WIRE TOWARD A SELECTED COMMUTATOR TANG WHILE THE WINDING MEANS IS AT REST. 